| Character | © |
| Name | Copyright Sign |
| Unicode Code Point | U+00A9 |
| Decimal Value | 169 |
| Hex Value | 0x00A9 |
| Category | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Windows Alt Code | Alt+0169 |
| Word Alt+X Code | 00A9 + Alt+X |
| Mac Shortcut | Option+G |
| HTML Entity | © |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | © / © |
| CSS Content Code | content: "\00A9"; |
| JavaScript Unicode Escape | "\u{00A9}" |
Copyright Sign is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block, primarily used for Western European languages (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and others) that need accented letters or region-specific punctuation beyond plain ASCII.
Unicode block: Latin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF). This block extends ASCII with accented Latin letters, currency signs, and legal symbols. It maps directly onto ISO 8859-1 ("Latin-1"), the dominant Western-European text encoding of the 1990s, which is why Windows Alt codes for this range still work today.
At Unicode code point U+00A9 (decimal 169), Copyright Sign is the 9th of 95 characters cataloged in this category on How To Type Any Symbol. In terms of typing methods, it is one of the characters in this block with both a documented Windows Alt code and a Mac keyboard shortcut, making it typeable without copy-paste on either platform. Regardless of platform, clicking the copy button above places the exact character on your clipboard, ready to paste into any application that accepts Unicode text.
💡 Good to know: When typing multilingual content on the web, always declare UTF-8 encoding in your HTML `<head>` to avoid this character rendering as a mangled symbol (mojibake).
Hold Alt and type 0169 on the numeric keypad.
Press Option+G.
Click the symbol above to copy it, then paste anywhere — works on every device and OS.
Use the entity © in your HTML.